Moscow: Priest Sacked for Quoting Müller and Schneider

On 5 February, Rev. Gregory Zwolinski, the former parish priest of Kirov, 950 kilometres northeast of Moscow, went public on VK.com.
The post is highly critical of Archbishop Paolo Pezzi, 64, the Italian-born head of the Moscow archdiocese.
Rev. Zwolinski recalls that on 5 April 2024 he published on his VK.com page an interview with Cardinal Müller, who criticised Fiducias supplicans and showed that it was incompatible with the Bible and the teaching of the Church.
On 6 April, Archbishop Pezzi called Zwolinski on his mobile phone and asked: "Who gave you permission to publish this material?"
The priest replied that he fully agreed with Cardinal Müller's statement and would not remove the text.
On 26 May, he published on VK.com an interview with Bishop Athanasius Scheider, in which Scheider criticised Francis's homosexual propaganda.
The next day, 27 May 2024, Zwolinski received a document from the Moscow Curia in which Monsignor Pezzi ordered him to leave his parish and the Moscow diocese …More